Just in time to celebrate New Years, we are thrilled to announce that Fruit of the Boot and Loison are sponsoring another giveaway!

In Italy Panettone, Italian Celebration Cakes, are a specialty of the season and eaten at both Christmas and New Years. Perhaps our family’s favorite panettone is the one infused with Maculan’s sweet Torcolato dessert wine. This is a sweet cake that is infused with what Florence Fabricant of the New York Times called Italy’s sweet secret. Torcolato means twisted, and the grapes are dried on corkscrew holders that hang from the ceiling. The flavor is a beautiful balance of rich and sweet making the cake elegant and celebratory. Every year Loison makes a limited number of these panettoni and they are reserved primarily for the Maculan estate.

This year, they are making available one of these precious, not usually available to the public, panettoni, for you. In addition, they are including their book, Mille e un Panettone (A Thousand and One Panettone). In this book you will find the various legends about the origins of panettone. It also discusses how to properly taste a panettone and includes some ingenious recipes. Written in both Italian and English it is perfect for any Italophile.

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I love to eat, write, talk, blog, teach; and think about FOOD. My husband Giuliano and I run a cooking school near Verona Italy and teach about Italian food. I was fortunate to have Marcella Hazan was my mother-in-law. In addition to being an award winning freelance writer for multiple outlets, I assist Allegrini Estates with their social media projects.

Managing to have Christmas come anyway even with moving into our first house December 23rd! What a ride this has been. This on the table for New Year’s would make me a Queen! Would love to nibble and learn about this wonderful edible delight without having to go to the fornaio or the alimentari! Not to mention that most available wouldn’t touch what amazing flavor this will have!

Ciao! I LOVE panettone! I buy it at Safeway on Kodiak Island, Alaska, where I’ve lived since 1980. I buy itwhen I go back home to Boston; go to the North End and buy different panettones. The ‘cream of the crop’ of panettones are the ones my friends send (me) from Italy, from Camogli, where I visited in 2006. I’m licking my chops right now; I can just taste all the wonderful flavors, the textures and even the various smells and the amazing colors. I also would LOVE to have that book to learn about all the possible origins of panettone and the amazing recipes/preparations/ways of serving the holiday/celebration cake. Grazie for listening to my carrying on about the wonderful Italiano cake.